A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

paidinchickens

Thank you everyone for putting up with me whining. Some days it feels like someone has put a curtain over the light at the end of the tunnel.

Story books are a fab idea and when I get to the library I will check it out.

Today is beautifully bright and sunny What a difference it makes to my mood.

Talking of birds and the calming effect I may sound totally bonkers but when my Nan died there was a robin watching us bury her and when I have been having really bad times a robin turns up in the garden. Is it my Nan saying "come on pull yourself together" ??? I would like to think so even if it does make me sound nuts

Greyqueen glad to see your back :T

Hope you all get your share of sunshine

PIC x

Margaret54

Have enjoyed reading all the posts about birds:) When my dh and I moved to our wee bungalow just over a year ago, we see lots of different birds and hang out fatballls on one little tree in the back garden and we bought a birdhouse which we put seeds into for them. Watching them all fly in and out the garden is wonderful and we can enjoy seeing them. So relaxing and I am actually going to see if the library has a bird book so we can identify some of them, which we haven't seen before. I have catching up on all the posts just haven't posted until now. I so love this forum:T

kidcat

afternoon all

PIC- I do hope you get some proper help, but would like to add thats its been my experience that your pain threshold gets higher too, mine certainly has.

GQ- lovely to have you home!!

Its D-day today, one item collected that sold on ebay yesterday so loads of space in its place, then later tonight car finishes, have had some oddly worded emails from a possible buyer - contacted ebay who advised to block the bidder so have done that again.

Off to take DS7 for a pair of swimming trunks today - can see it being interesting as he hates shorts and wont wear them!!

mardatha

PIC why would that seem daft to think the robin came from your gran ? It's what I would think, and the most natural thing in the world xxx

Winchelsea

gardenia101 said (asking about my Quaker meeting):

"That sounds interesting - is that at the meeting house just down from Bog Island?"

That's where I go on Sundays Gardenia - the sustainability meeting was at Bradford-on-Avon! (Was poorly while over there - walked up the wrong hill - too steep for me, and eventually ended up in RUH (main hospital in Bath) on Wednesday - diagnosis angina - now have new meds to cope with!

Are you from Bath then? (Non-residents will wonder about Bog Island!)

Winchelsea

Thanks all for the good wishes. I'm doing fine thanks. Walked up to the village this morning, and whereas the slight slope up from our close has been, umm, kn**kering of late, it didn't seem as bad this time. I think the tablets are doing what they're supposed to - getting more oxygen into my heart muscle.

Byatt - it was my first order from ROSSPA - it's worth a look via G**gle!

VJsmum - the chapel was not in Cornwall, but on the edge of Bath. Someone told me that the plan was to build it with just a small window, but the mayor at the time (a woman and a Quaker) suggested the whole wall of glass. I'm so glad she did - it's lovely.

More4Less - how awful to lose a DGD at 17. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you all. But incredible that the buzzards were there too.

Mrs_Chip

Afternoon Everyone!

What a glorious day again, we are so lucky, we seem to have left the weather troll at home! I dread to think what it would be like here if the weather was as cold as a few weeks ago. Lots of birdy song and goldfinches on the niger seed.

GQ - glad to see you back, and your post is positively fizzing with the speed of transmission!

PIC, in fact any one in constant pain, you have my deepest sympathy, I turn into an utter mare when I have pain like that, it gnaws away at your ability to function like a rational human being.

Mard - We saw a falconry demonstration when we went to the Minature Pony Centre at Moretonhampstead in 2010, and they were flying a tiny American Kestrel. He was a super little bird, and full of attitude. Here he is on someone's Flickr

We are treating ourselves to a takeaway this evening - our favorite chinese restaurant. One of the few things I will miss when we leave here is the choice of delicious food to take away. I know I can cook it, but there are times when only a takeaway will do. We considered getting a pizza delivered yesterday but OH decided that £28 for two pizzas was outrageous and we had a frozen Aldi (£1.99) one instead!:rotfl:
He's learning!

Dinner is on him tonight out of some money we got back unexpectedly - when we had the oil fiasco and mistakenly turned off the oil and called out an engineer (oh how foolish did we feel!) on our Homeserve cover. We put in a claim, not really expecting it to be paid, but it was! Just shows it's always worth a punt. I will enjoy my BBQ pork belly even more for it!

Hobsons_Choice

My gran and grandad died 1951/1942 respectively. Their grave was in a very old cemetery and had sunk beneath the tree years ago (back to their roots)? Recently I got permission to put a plaque there and plant some bulbs. After putting the plaque at the head of the grave, a robin came and perched on there, really close to us. That was my gran for sure, I've never doubted it.

katieowl_2

Anyone in the South East who loves birdies, should go along to Eagle Heights in Kent. You can have a little close up look at the birds and the flying demo out of the Darenth Valley is awesome.The people who fly the birds so obviously love what they do! It was one of our favorite outings when the kids were small, not cheap, but you can take your own food, and it's a lovely place for a wander and also close to the lullingstone roman villa. Again you have to pay for that, but it's really amazing.

Kate

Edited to add: I should have said it's a bird of prey centre.

mardatha

God owl, I'd give my right arm for a Roman villa!! Only ever had one afternoon at Hadrians Wall and loved it.
I have heard of Eagle Heights, falconry is a small world, but I didnt know it was that far down.